Bailey's Beads

Bailey's Beads
by Terry Wolverton

Bailey's Beads
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Author: Terry Wolverton
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08-09
ISBN: 0571198910
Number of pages: 185
Publisher: Faber & Faber

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Book Review: A Gem Not To Be Missed!
Summary: 5 Stars

Terry Wolverton's debut novel, BAILEY'S BEADS, is one of the most extraordinary and engrossing books I've read in some time. This moving, wise, and provocative novel is the story of Bryn Redding, a Los Angeles writer who lies comatose following an auto accident. At her bedside are Bryn's lover (Djuna) as well as Bryn's mother (Vera) and through their alternating points of view the reader soon comes to discover that Bryn is not quite the person either of the two grieving women thought she was. While drawing the reader into the compelling plot Wolverton simultaneously explores that common human tendency to feel we actually "know" another person when in fact we are often only familiar with a select part of the whole...or we are merely interpreting their behavior...or simply projecting our own experience onto them. This extremnely well written novel accomplishes this all in a quiet and subtle manner which haunted this reader long after finishing the book. It's a real gem not to be missed.

Summary of Bailey's Beads

Nominated for a 1993 Lambda Literary Award for her collection of poetry, Black Slip, the author traces the conflicts between the mother of the victim of a car accident who lies in a coma and her daughter's lesbian lover.

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